Transverse vibrations of a centrally clamped rotating circular disk (Q5960048)

The authors analyze the transverse vibrations of a circular disk of uniform thickness rotating about its axis with constant angular velocity. The results specialized to the linear case of disks clamped at the center and free at the periphery are in good agreement with those reported in the literature. The natural frequencies of spinning hard and floppy disks are obtained for various nodal diameters and nodal circles. Primary resonance is shown to occur at the critical rotational speed at which, in the linear analysis, the spinning disk is unable to support arbitrary spatially fixed transverse loads. Using the method of multiple scales, a set of four nonlinear ordinary differential equations governing the modulation of amplitudes and phases of two interacting modes are derived. The symmetry of the system and the loading conditions are reflected in the symmetry of modulation equations. They are reduced to an equivalent set of two first-order equations whose equilibrium solutions are found analytically. The stability characteristics of these solutions are studied, and it is shown that the qualitative behaviour of the response is independent of the mode being considered.